Sentences with phrase «of illiterate people»

«No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.»

They claim that Turkey ahs a massive stray dog problem to con gullible buyers who know nothing about the middle east and believe it to be a massive wasteland of illiterate people.

While the proportion of illiterate people on the planet has declined over the past 70 years, the absolute number has remained stubbornly unchanged.»

Not exact matches

You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

The entire religion is based on mistakes from people too illiterate to remember the origin of their religion... and even today we see the church evolving on that same path, rewriting and reinterpreting it's rulebook to try and fit a modern society it can never catch up to.

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

per vertssss; american living here in canada in niagra falls; the niagra parway is beautiful and the houses magnifigant and there is this huge huge mcmanision called precouis blood 16 plus bedrooms with own bathrooms horse farm top of the line cars in the back very very elegant; guess who lives there priests so thanks for your donations the perverts are living well your not but they are hahahaha people are so stupid to give these freaks any money; and you are totally illiterate if you think these people have any connection to god; i would have to say that god will probly punish the phony pervs and any followers they may have; obviously they know the religion is phony or they wouldnt be doing what they do

To say people with land line phones are illiterate, ignorant, disabled, old and do not understand the issues just shows your total level of ignorance.

instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.

Jesus Christ didn't write the Bible his disciples did and therefore I conclude that most people in the world are illiterate and will be saved by the preaching and teaching of the only one real church of catholicism founded in Rome, Italy by Peter the first bishop of Rome.

I've come across people who are incapable of reading the Bible, not because they're illiterate, but because they are spiritually blind and they can't understand what it's saying.

Sufi orders prevailed among the illiterate and naïve tribes of Africa because illiterate people rely completely on others for an understanding of their religion, while an educated Muslim would turn to the Qur» an to know what Islam really is.

The church want more illiterate people as immigrants to be flock of ignorant people in mass and benefit from those financially.

Out of 800 million people enumerated as illiterate in the world, two - thirds are women.

In Augustine's time, reading aloud was a public practice, conducted in a company of people, so that those who were illiterate could benefit.

This case in not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.»

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

Funny the guy who wrote this article says «My Mohammed declared in writing» Dude your mohammad was illiterate not to mention he was a bloodthirsty pedophile warlord who plagiarized the three religions of the area in order to invent his own religion in order to control all the people he conquered

«Our educational system, in spite of recent improvements, is still shockingly inadequate and is still producing far too many people who are functionally illiterate and incapable of taking their place in the modern world.

People are biblically illiterate which is why they listen to the hear - say of others instead of doing the work to find it themselves.

So the accusation of being «biblically illiterate» is often nothing more than a way to ignore or write off those people with whom you disagree so that you don't have to consider their arguments or seek to understand their position.

Both of these pastors, I think, would agree that people are more biblically illiterate than ever before.

Somewhere along the way they will likely make mention of the many Christians who do not condemn LGBTQ people, and rather than consider and respond to the arguments and beliefs of these other Christians, these pastors will just dismiss them with a wave of the hand and scornful comment about such views being «biblically illiterate.»

Tired of actiivist groups... we're tired of illiterate poodles... oops, I mean people.

Therefore, painting became at once the vehicle for the communication of the gospel to illiterates among the faithful and the expression of the faithfulness of people of immense power and station.

But the biblical story serves as a reminder that God is no respecter of persons, that the word is spoken and heard in shacks and mansions, churches and classrooms, and that it reaches scholars and illiterates.

But the Bible is full of visual imagery — and for centuries many illiterate people have come to know and love God through mentally picturing the great events it describes.

Thankfully, Ozark shows the people of rural Missouri as, well people, rather than toothless, illiterate stereotypes.

They are comprised of uneducated and illiterate people.

There were no written records as the vast majority of people were illiterate, everything was passed on by word of mouth, not the most accurate method.

The most vehemently anti-God people are also some of the most illiterate from a biblical perspective..

The prophet of islam was a illiterate pedophile warlord who plagiarized the three religions of the area so he could invent his own religion in order to control all the people he conquered.

We see the same things being done in areas of the world where most people are illiterate and unable to challenge the teachings of their religious leaders.

The question I always ask when the issue of biblical illiteracy comes up is: why, after decades of people sitting through week after week, hour after hour of sermons allegedly done to educate Christians on scripture, do some make a case that there is a «crisis» of Christians being biblically illiterate.

The evidence is irrefutable that Nigeria's immense endowments have not benefited the vast majority of its people - more than 70 % of the population is poor; over 30 % are unemployed; more than 40 % of the youths have no jobs; 30 % of our people remain illiterate; life expectancy is just 52 years; and the country exhibits poor human development with HDI of just 0.514.

Sadly this invaluable book can not tell us in advance if this is going to happen but it does provide the information to help guide even the most statistically illiterate person as to what will be going on during the election and will come into its own during the long night of counting after the polls have closed, if returning offi cers up and down the country do not have their way and pull the plug on counting in a majority of the seats immediately after the polls have closed.

20 % of the kids coming out of our primary schools by modern standards are illiterate or innumerate and if you think you can solve that problem - which is one of the scandals of modern times - by being nice to people and cosying up to the vested interests of the trade unions, you just don't understand the powers of the unions.

Not only is the cut immoral, but it is economically illiterate - facing the clear risk of a triple - dip recession, the government is planning to pull millions of pounds out of the pockets of people who, had they received it, would certainly have fed the money back into the economy in buying food, buying energy, and buying services.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

While globally the percentage of illiterate adults fell from 18 % in 2000 to 14 % in 2015, this progress is almost entirely attributed to more educated young people reaching adulthood.

Andrew Kay, the chief executive of the World Literacy Foundation and the author of the report, said: «The fact that 9 million people in the UK are functionally illiterate and struggle to read and write is shocking in 2018.

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

Commenting on the need of such programs, Development Alternatives says «In the most practical terms, an illiterate person can not ethically sign a contract, can not get vocational training, can not help their children with their schooling and can not communicate with family members in other towns and villages except by phone.

Even though a lot of different definitions describe functional illiteracy, they are in agreement that functional illiterate people can read and write very simple sentences but not enough to deal with the needs of daily life in their society.

It means that a quarter of young people in poorer countries are illiterate, which has far - reaching implications for economic prospects and political stability.

Several reasons why many people do not write for publishing (Become That Writer Part 1)- General lack of literacy skills - Failure to acquire some form of basic education may lead to one becoming illiterate.

When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to «get a life» by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

During the Middle Ages, when most people were illiterate and women were seen as having little value, Hildegard transformed the world around her through her music, her scholarship, her preaching, and her visions of the face of a female God.

I arrived in my classroom and looked through my inmates» academic records only to find that many of them, people who are on the brink of adulthood, were functionally illiterate.

He exposes Chinese society in layers from the bottom upward: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; to the twenty grades of Party apparatchiks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.